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Headquarters, Sixth Sub-District,
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,

Charleston, S.C. October 15th 1868

To His Excellency
R. K Scott

[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

Sir
I have the honor to state, that upon a careful personal Inspection and from information gathered since from all parts of the Sea Islands, and adjacent Coast, the crop of the Sea Island Cotton again to be an almost entire failure. The catterpillar, with the weather, in the highest degrees favorable to their increase, and voraciousness, destroyed, a great portion on the crop. Owing however to the advanced Season, it was hoped that one half of a crop would be made. But the late excessive rains have destroyed the larger part of the Bolls left by the catterpillar, causing the cotton to rot in the Boll, and producing a very large proportion of yellow cotton in that which is not too rotten for use, From all the information I can get and from my own observations I am fully satisfied, that there will not be more